The Humanistic Tradition, Book 3: The European Renaissance, The Reformation, and Global Encounter

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Preface

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PART ONE The Age of the Renaissance

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Timeline

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(1)

Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition

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The Black Death

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Reading 3.1 From Boccaccio's Introduction to the Decameron (1351)

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The Effects of the Black Death

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Europe in Transition

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(4)

The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy

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(1)

The Hundred Years' War

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(1)

The Decline of the Church

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Anticlericalism and the Rise of Devotional Piety

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(2)

Literature in Transition

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(1)

The Social Realism of Boccaccio

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Reading 3.2 From Boccaccio's ``Tale of Filippa'' from the Decameron (1351)

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(2)

The Feminism of Christine de Pisan

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Reading 3.3 From Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies (1405)